Healthy minds, healthy bodies: can community weight loss services support better mental health?
You may remember you were interviewed for the Healthy Minds Healthy Bodies Study sometime in the last couple of years.
You gave your time and insights to help us understand how people with low mood or anxiety hear about community weight services (or if they don’t).
We also wanted to know if they were helpful and how they could be made better for everyone.
The aim was to make recommendations to people who run the services based on your interviews.
We also interviewed some people who run services and some health care practitioners (such as nurses, GPs and social prescribers).
Here are 3 summaries that talk about different aspects of the findings.
- Overall Summary (Office document, 33kB)
- Getting Support in Primary Care (Office document, 20kB)
- Experiences of People from Black African, Caribbean and South Asian Communities. (Office document, 41kB)
Thank you very much once again for your help with this study
This study was funded by the NIHR Policy Research Programme: NIHR203867. The views expressed here are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.
NHS Ethics approval for the study was granted by HCRW (23/NW/0179: 26.09.2023) and University of Bristol Local Ethics Committee (Ref: 12663; 16.01.23)
To the lived-experience panel members: Samina Begum, Nysha Givans, Sophia Ibru and Nadya Isack. CAAFI Health Ambassadors, local faith and community groups with specific thanks to Iqbal Osman for help and guidance in recruiting. Sally Hogg, Rachel Clark, Sarah Cornell and Vanessa Snowden-Clarke for guidance. The BNSSG Diverse Research Engagement Network for feedback.
Most of all to the participants who gave their time and insights.